Mother leads from the front for Dhindsa Jr

Parvesh Sharma

Tribune News Service

Sangrur, April 23

It is the first-ever election the Dhindsa family is contesting without the family head and Rajya Sabha MP Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa. Harjit Kaur Dhindsa (75), wife of Dhindsa, is working as the chief manager of the campaign of her son and former Punjab Finance Minister Parminder Dhindsa, who is SAD Sangrur candidate, and her straight talk in chaste Punjabi is helping her to establish direct connect with rural voters.

“Tusi mere munde di imandari dekho. Naale baaki candidate vi check karlo. Assi saari umar tuhadi sewa kiti hai, khyal rakhio” (You should check the honesty of my son and of other candidates also. We have worked all our life for you, take care),” Harjit Kaur said while interacting with a group of women from surrounding villages at her Sangrur residence.

She starts her tour early in the morning and meetings continue till late evening. Before leaving her house, she never forgets to have detailed meeting with her son Parminder and her daughter-in-law Gagandeep Kaur Dhindsa. Being the wife of Sr Dhindsa, who remained active in Sangrur politics for around 45 years and became Union minister also, she is called “Mata Ji” and in all villages residents surround her with a bunch of applications for their pending works.